Bardiac

I still haven't heard from either of the students who didn't turn in a paper.  Argh. But I've made other progress! 1.  Grad...

I finished grading my stack and realized that two students didn't turn in papers.  I emailed both.  (One had a family problem before, so...

Good day, but much faffing around.  I did grade more papers, so now I have 2 left for tomorrow.  And then that part of the week will be done...

Yesterday afternoon, I read my friend's book (good, and very fun for me), put the switchplates and such back in the living room, and wit...

Officially, it starts at 5pm today.  But this morning, the parking lot was way less full than usual.  (Generally, if I'm not parked by 8...

I have two hour class periods with my first year writing course one day a week.  (It's a five hour a week course, so we have one two hou...

Last summer, I had the old off-white carpet removed from my main floor, and replace with beautiful oak hardwood floors.  I went from this t...

My social media feeds have pretty much exploded with posts and comments about Sherman Alexie, most in response to Debbie Reese's post ...

For some reason, this semester seems especially taxing.  Personally, I feel happy and physically healthy. I'm upset about Fie's b...

This week's meeting wasn't quite as bad as last week's, but was frustrating. We talked about assessment.  What do you know, mo...

The tenured folks in my department had a big meeting on Friday about our Review After Tenure (RAT) process with one of the semi-big-wigs ove...

As I noted before , I've become the treasurer for the union local at NWU.  We had a session where we went through things:  the state uni...

We have a small MA program, and one of the ways the department tries to help these folks financially is with research assistantships.  Facul...

Before I left last summer, I had my Suzuki Book 3 test, and started working on the first piece of Book 4.  But then I didn't practice wh...

We're now well into the first week of classes.  I taught all three of my classes (including a 5 hour a week course) on Monday, ending wi...